Kim Dotcom, referred to as the “Internet tycoon” by some media sources, finally had to face proceedings over his $175m MegaUpload empire that he was trying to delay so many times. To attend the court hearing in New Zealand, Dotcom needed a specially designed chair.

The American government whistleblower Edward Snowden claimed that encryption might prevent us from distinguishing signals from alien species from the space. Recently, Snowden appeared from Russia on the StarTalk podcast to express his views.

Everyone knows that Google has to process millions takedown requests from the rights owners, which are not all proper and valid, but there's also another problem with DMCA notices: spammers also submit a flood of them in the hope that it will indirectly drive traffic to online stores selling dubious and counterfeit goods.

The authorities seized two domains – ShareBeast.com and AlbumJams.com, which belonged to websites pre-releasing copyrighted music. Now the sites show the banner informing everyone of the seizure. Of course, the entertainment industry welcomed the move.
While efforts of the copyright holders to hinder file-sharing websites gain momentum all over the world, especially in Europe, criminal actions in the United States remain quite rare.

According to Japanese media reports, the prosecutors charged Mark Karpelès, the former head of the now defunct Bitcoin exchange Mt Gox, with embezzlement. Indeed, it recently turned out that Karpelès is accused of embezzling ¥321m ($2.6m) from the worldwide known Bitcoin exchange Mt Gox. The service collapsed last year after revelations of a massive shortage in customer currency.

The former Vodafone CEO was questioned by a Senate committee after the carrier admitted accessing a reporter’s call records and text messages. He claimed that a serious privacy breach of the subscriber’s phone wasn’t reported to the police because he just didn’t know about it.

American prosecutors have finally sought to dismiss charges against a Chinese professor accused of stealing secret US technology. Physicists explained that the investigators had simply misunderstood the technology.

Kim Dotcom is trying to delay an extradition hearing, which is due to take place in a few days. The American government wants the MegaUpload founder to face the largest copyright infringement trial ever, but the defendants argue that a fair hearing will be impossible if they can’t pay for expert witnesses outside New Zealand.